Abstract

When the Movimento de Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra do Brasil (Movement of Landless Rural Workers’ of Brazil—MST) occupies land and forms autonomous agricultural communities, it aspires to achieve the supremacy of labor over capital and to embody socialist values. However, a policy of organizing production cooperatives on its settlements in the early 1990s was unsuccessful, principally because of a failure fully to respect traditional forms of work and sociability. However, the MST learned from its early mistakes and has since developed elaborate forms of informal and formal cooperation on land that is essentially the common property of a democratic settlement association. It is therefore living up to its socialist objectives and manifesting a real alternative to capitalist work and property relations. Cuando el Movimento de Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra do Brasil (MST) ocupa tierra y forma comunidades agrícolas autónomas, aspira a lograr la supremacía del trabajo sobre capital y encarnar valores socialistas. No obstante, una política para organizar cooperativas de producción en sus asentamientos a principios de los 1990 no prosperó, mayormente por la falta de respeto pleno a las formas tradicionales de trabajo y sociabilidad. El MST aprendió de sus errores iniciales y desde entonces ha desarrollado intricadas formas de cooperación informal y formal en tierra que es esencialmente la propiedad común de una asociación de asentamiento democrática. Por lo tanto está haciendo honra a sus objetivos socialistas y demostrando una alternativa concreta a las relaciones capitalistas de trabajo y propiedad.

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